SEK 50 million to microelectronics research in LinköpingOctober 14, 2002In the five years to come the Linköping Institute of Technology will be one of four strategic research centers in microelectronics in Sweden. The Foundation for Strategic Research has allocated SEK 50 million to a Linköping-based research program for the design of complex systems for communication. In five years the capacity of a single computer chip may grow from 10,000 to a million MIPS (millions of instructions per second), while electronic systems may use 100 or 1,000 times less current than today. Harnessing of these resources as efficiently as possible is the vision that drives the Linköping researchers in the Stringent Program-Strategic Integrated Electronic Systems Research. One goal, apart from the generation of basic knowledge, is to enhance the position of Swedish industry in the competitive field of advanced electronics. Four research teams from two departments will combine their expertise in a focused effort at Linköping University, making it perhaps the largest electronics center in Sweden. This breadth makes it possible to cover many fields, including system construction (how ideas are ushered all the way to manufactured products), technology exploitation (to cuts costs, energy use, and size by maximally exploiting the potential of technologies), and efficient construction (enabling the rapid design even of complex new systems). "We are extremely pleased about the Foundation's decision. The Strategic Foundation has had less money to distribute this year than earlier, and it is especially gratifying to count among those who received grants," says Professor Christer Svensson, who coordinates the program. Christer Svensson is professor of electronic components and is well known for his work the System-on-Chip field, that is, building whole computer systems on a single chip. The other three research teams participating are led by professors Dake Liu (computer technology), Zebo Peng (inbuilt systems), and Lars Wanhammar (electronic systems). | |||||||||||||||||||||
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